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ADULT SERVICES DIVISION

COURT SERVICES

Adult Court Services provides criminal investigation services to the Superior Courts. This information is
provided to the Courts in reports written by Deputy Probation Officers
(DPOs). Reports are provided in the cases of offenders who are awaiting SERVICE TO THE
a judgment of guilt or innocence (Pre-Plea reports) or who have been COURTS
found guilty and are awaiting the Court's disposition of their case (Pre-
Sentence reports). These reports include factual summaries of the

offense, the social and criminal history of the offender, a comprehensive A primary mission of the
firearms ownership investigation, the offender’s statement, the Department is to provide
intake, investigation, and
statement of the victim or other interested parties, restitution supervision services for the
information, an evaluation of the offense and an assessment of the Superior Courts. These

offender’s risk and criminogenic needs. Pre-Plea and Pre-Sentence services provide the Courts
reports include a discussion of the offender’s eligibility for probation with the information
(the law prohibits probation in some cases) and a recommendation as to needed to make well-
whether or not probation should and/or can, in the Department's informed decisions and to
opinion, be granted. If probation supervision is recommended, ensure community safety.
appropriate Terms and Conditions (T&Cs) are also proposed. For cases

that are no longer statutorily eligible for state prison due to Public Safety
Realignment, the Court will determine whether to sentence the offender to serve the entire sentence
in local custody, with no supervision ordered, or impose a split sentence. Split sentences include having
the offender serve custody time in the county jail followed by the remaining portion of the sentence

served under mandatory supervision by the Probation Department. The DPO provides the Court with
recommendations and accompanying T&Cs for a split sentence. If an offender has been sentenced to a
state prison commitment and a report has not previously been ordered, a Post-Sentence Report is
prepared to provide prison officials with the offense summary and criminal/social history of the offender
they are receiving, as well as mandatory victim and restitution information.

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